The list of actors transformed by noses is legend: think The Hours with Nic Kid’s snout…
Will Smith in Ali…
Steve Martin in Roxanne…..
and so many more that I’m almost bored… (Alistair Sims, Alec Guinness, Alec Baldwin and the beat goes on… and okay, Rip Torn in The Beastmaster, geez, your drunk tests are hard…)
But now Gemma Arterton joins a stellar bunch of noses by playing a girl whose nosejob changed several worlds.
Tamara Drewe, based on the Posy Simmonds’ Guardian published cartoon of same, may be named after Arterton’s character – a free-spirited London journalist whose return to a small village causes havoc, but the snappy, interesting side of the story rests firmly with Tamsin Greig, the much put-upon homemaker to craphound author played by Roger Allam.
Director Stephen Frears’ latest release is a sexy, bouncy, sleb-obsessed rollicking frolic of a film, British through-and-through in feel and look.
Although this Arterton headliner won’t be released til September, keep an eye out for hunk Luke Evans and a sporty-sized Dominic Cooper playing, basically, Pete Doherty. You’ve heard it here first.
